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"What goes around comes around,” said the subject of The Interrogation of Tony Martin (Channel 4) with a chilling sneer. “That’s how things are, boy.” This one-off “verbatim drama”, with every word taken from original transcripts, recreated police interviews with the reclusive farmer who confronted two burglars when they broke into his remote Norfolk home one infamous night in 1999. Was he a gung-ho vigilante or just a vulnerable man trying to protect himself?

Easy answers weren’t forthcoming, which was perhaps to be expected from a case that fiercely divided public opinion. Martin (a pugnacious performance from Steve Pemberton) made for an erratic murder suspect, veering from frightened...

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